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Quote:Check your chat settings, you can turn off any STO channels in CO and vice versa. (I had to remember to do that.)Originally Posted by KnightOwl
My biggest complaint about the CoX channel is that it's cross-game. It's slightly more than mildly annoying to have a question, observation, or shared experience about CO which gets buried underneath 5 minutes of Star Trek Online chat.
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Quote:That's really unfortunate - I wish I could say I'm completely surprised, but I'm not, really. There is a community of good people in CO and they are the ones on the forums being supportive. But MC Zone Chat is infamous. Let me explain why.Originally Posted by LadyGrimrose
It wasn't just global chat it was personal tells. They were spiteful and vindictive. On my first night, within an hour, I had fifteen people on ignore. No, sadly, that community has a lot to learn about being respectful. I didn't respond to any of it either. The nastiness just poured in. No, I have my problems with DCUO, but I doubt I'll receive this kind of animosity there. (Oh, I will thread it if I do, believe me.)
I need some time to cool down. If you could send me the channel info and how to get in it. Maybe when I get back online I'll give this another whirl.
The main city instance - Millennium City is huge, and it is both the beginning area for new people (after the tutorial) and the central hub in terms of zone interaction. As well as the first, main powerhouse training area. It's really the equivalent of having Atlas Park, Steel Canyon and Kings Row all in the same zone. And because of the way the servers instance zones - no separate servers, just duplicate instances which people can talk across - it's also the equivalent of having all of our servers mashed into one when the population is up.
Because of all of that - MC Zone broadcast chat is like WoW's infamous "Barrens" chat.
I really recommend turning OFF zone chat when you are in Millennium City.
Talk locally, on global channels like CoX and SG channels, and team. Again DO NOT TURN ON OR BOTHER WITH ZONE CHAT IN MC. Just don't. It'll save your sanity and keep you from losing faith in humanity. Lazy griefers who make new accounts and toons for the sole purpose of being trolls rather than playing the game are going to be in the zone chat. Don't bother.
It is not really representative of the CO community at large. As the others have said - join the new CoX channel. Talk to global friends for advice etc.
You can turn on zone chat safely in the other zones like Canada and the Desert and Monster Island etc to ask for help though. Once you're out of "Griefer/Troll central" the actual serious players are MUCH friendlier in open chat.
Try my advice and some of the others and see how it goes with the mature players. And don't let the trolls get you down. -
Quote:"Now that is a BIG DOOR!"Originally Posted by NaoGal
Hmm... Think we can get the beam laser that transported Flynn and his son into the digital world in the Tron movies?
"Oh man, this isn't happening, it only thinks it's happening..."
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Quote:*YAWN* Bored now. Not relevant to saving City of Heroes. Nobody's going to budge either way. Drop it and move along.Originally Posted by Laughing_Wolf
Said a lot of words without saying anything of worth to the thread.
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Here are four of my mains. Cyberman 8, Kara Skye, Lora'lai, and Sassinak.
Of them all - Lora'lai has probably the most "Classic" look. (She's also a Kheldian - so if any type of character is truly TIED to the concepts of this universe and would be destroyed with it, it would be her. The others I've ported in some fashion to other games. I can't do that with Lora. I don't know if that makes any conceptual difference to you, but I thought I'd mention it. )
Here's Cyberman 8 (MA/SR Scrapper)
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And Lora'Lai (Peacebringer)Quote:0 1642 Player
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My Responsibility Loyalist Sassinak (DP/EM Blaster)
Just in case you need a representative of Praetoria.
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Just before all the madness truly began on Virtue Server. Right before all the teams began to scatter to their first missions, we had already spawned 2 Steel Canyons! Yay!
I was on the team with "CAPTAIN BACON" leading both Posi #1 and Posi #2.
On Posi #2, Captain Bacon fell off the bridge in the Oranbega caves into a group of Thorns.
The battlecry went up - "SAVE THE BACON! SAVE THE WORLD!"
It was that kind of night.
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What the heck does it DO? TELL US!!!
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Quote:Originally Posted by Kangstor
I wanted to share this while looking for my old MMO's. This game had so much potential but got shut down because of lack of content before if its leveling curve was a little better it could be easily one of my favorites and still in my top 5. Interesting part is after 4 years it is revived again hopefully we will have a similiar story in a couple of years.
http://mmo-play.com/rpg-games/rf-onl...ine-na-servers
Interesting that it's coming back. But unless they've fixed the MASSIVE problems with this game (which mostly are that it's yet ANOTHER in a long line of Korean style "Grinders") it will fail here again. Western gamers are looking for content, not endless grind. But maybe they finally learned from their mistakes and are doing a truly westernized port of it? Maybe they fixed that RIDICULOUS chat bug?
Still - This does in a way give me further hope for City of Heroes. You have a point. If RF Online can make a comeback, ANYTHING can.
I tried out RF online for awhile in late 2007. Wrote a short review on it at that time, here:
(This next part I'm including just because I already wrote it, it's easy to paste in, and it's a quick review of my time in RF online etc. If you want to stay with the main point of the thread, just "TL,DR" past to the next post.)
(Of course this review was written in 2007. It probably now looks as dated as COH does.)Quote:Ehh.. meh...
It's really a shame too, I tried REALLY hard to like this game. It is SO pretty, and the music is wonderful. There's a very interesting Science-Fantasy premise to the whole universe too. (For example, this is post-humanity. We're so far in the future that standard H o m o -sapiens as we know it no longer exist. And the 3 races in the game are various offshoots.)
I still love the opening and incidental music and have some of it downloaded.
It's physical design and character design (though limited) are outstanding. Weapon designs are very cool. Effects are too.
Too bad about the actual gameplay sucking so badly.
MAJOR COMPLAINTS:
1) You can NOT customize the keyboard! If you don't like using the standard AWSD movement keys, you are stuck. I use my mouse left-handed and I want my numberpad on the right-hand side of the keyboard to be my movement control area.
But that doesn't seem to matter to most hardcore RF players because the game seems set up for "point mouse and click to make character go there" gameplay.
I HATE that style of play. Especially tactically.
2) So - in order to get to the REALLY good stuff in terms of content, I have to spend 30 levels farming my a-s-s off? And then it's PVP all the way?
er... NO! That's why I play City of Heroes, so I don't HAVE to do that! It's why World of Warcraft is something I still love in spite of various areas where I have to grind, because I don't HAVE to do that in WoW to have fun!
Remember that concept? Fun? As in - this shouldn't be a JOB? Because that's what it felt like getting a character to level 20. I couldn't go any further than that, really.
And speaking of WORK versus FUN....
3) Wait a minute... so in order to gain the big money I am going to need for armor and weapons and such, my faction needs to be in control of this central mine area. And I need to get a mining tool and basically... leave my character in AFK mining mode... for 8 hours? Er... F-U-C-K NO!!!
Minor complaints:
1) Limited Emotes - this game, despite being very anime, and very pretty, is not very RP friendly.
2) Wait a minute? I can't jump? At ALL? With any character? Mind you, this does prevent one of my "favorite" annoyances in both COH and WoW, the hyper hopping in place teeny-bopper. But it's also really weird.
3) Wait a minute... you mean all that pretty water and oceans in the distance and I can't get there because a) I can't jump and b) I can't just walk off of high territory to lower territory? Boy you people really have us on rails here, don't you?
I really cannot recommend this game. As I said - it's a real shame. SO much wasted potential! It's sad, because if you took those visual and design elements that I liked and applied them to a game like WoW or Everquest, you'd really have something. -
Quote:AWESOME!!Originally Posted by Aggelakis
I am getting married on Talk Like a Pirate Day.
In honor of this auspicious event, I'm reminded of possibly THE most awesome pirate wedding...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D4-KxcCn68
... in the world.
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Quote:(Falls over laughing)Originally Posted by Rabid_M
Well, it would go to prove that pulling out abruptly isn't a good way to avoid us.
I don't know if I've ever seen so much WRONG and so much WIN all in one neat line.
You win.
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I like to make jokey homage toons.
Really AWFUL ones.
(I thought of adding a Mojo Jojo villain to be her counterpart, but it didn't really work all that well and I never went through with the idea)
We are on the cutting edge of cocking about!
My confession concerning the next one? Is that this is the VERY FIRST THING I THOUGHT OF when wings came out! And the idea would NOT leave me alone until I made it!
Feel the power of... ATTORNEY!!! WA-CHAAA!!!
I confess... that I really AM a powerful magician, and not just a gifted surgeon...
(Seriously - I could not BELIEVE that name was not taken on Virtue Server! I had fun walking into the "D" sometimes and thanking the heroes who had "rescued me". )
I designed costumes for the entire team of Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets/Eagle Riders/ etc.)
And their nemesis - Berg Katse! (Zoltar)
Samus (which later became a blaster named Startracker Zero - see below)
And this last one - I roped a bunch of friends together into doing this one with me.
So that's my "secret" shame. And the only one I ever got busted on was the Metroid Homage. So I just shrugged and moved on, renaming her "Startracker Zero" which is a slightly more oblique reference to the same series, and she made level 50 within the last year!
Thank you so much, devs, for THE most robust character design tool ever - even if some of us can't resist putting it to "questionable" use sometimes.
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I have no words. Only tears.
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This needs to be bumped back to the top to be read again and again and agreed 100% with both AmazingMoo and Captain Electric
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BTW jwbullfrog? I'm now registered on the Titan network. Can you post a link where you've crossposted so I can crosspost my response back? I'm a little unfamiliar with the way things are structures over there. Thanks!
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I'm a little confused, here. I get that we'll need to promote a resurrected City of Heroes like crazy. But as you say - isn't this a little premature?
Or is there something you had in mind for us to do right now? Is there, perhaps, a way for us to promote the game to other publishers?
I'm no advertising guy - but I would assume a "pitch" to a publisher like Steam (just to use a recent example) would be different than advertising the game to the public?
I remember Ascendant saying that he tried to make the core of his character concepts, like Ascendant or Doctor Crom, come from what he called "The Elevator Pitch".
It's called that because the idea is to pitch the idea of a TV series or movie to a studio executive in the amount of time you have while you are traveling between floors on an elevator. You have a "captive" audience at that point, but very limited time. (There's a classic story - unknown if apocryphal or not, that Gene Roddenberry sold "Star Trek" on the basis of pitching it as "Wagon Train to the Stars" to a network executive. That's a classic "elevator pitch" if ever there was one!)
So, I suppose my idea here is - can we develop an "Elevator Pitch" for City of Heroes targeted at a publisher?
Remember - you have to time it out: Write something out and then read it aloud. Assume your maximum time is 30 seconds or so. (You've gotten lucky and your elevator is going straight to the ground floor with no interruptions/people getting on.) But 10-15 seconds would be ideal.
So that's my take. I don't have one ready and I'm not sure I can do it. But I thought I'd throw the idea out there. -
Quote:If you have not previously bought a particular retail box version of City of Heroes (Architect Edition, Going Rogue, Going Rogue Complete, Good vs Evil, just to name a few) then you can find a copy on Amazon or Ebay. Buy one ----Originally Posted by Matthew_Orlock
I'm pretty bummed I wont be able to be VIP for the rest of the games life..I was VIP the whole time right up until the 28th of August when I had to cancel my sub until I had money to renew..Of course that never happaned and now I am locked out of some characters I care for very much because of it...
****IMPORTANT NOTE: MAKE SURE THE COPY IS NEW AND HAS NEVER BEEN OPENED!****
---- and apply the code that is inside the box. That will re-activate VIP status for you. That's what I've done.
I initially bought the original City of Heroes box and the City of Villains box sets. (COMPACT DISCS! They were still sets of 5 CDs back then! LOL )
But after that, all my purchases were digital. So there are plenty of box codes for me to choose from to fill out the final days until November 30th.
Also - those boxes are going for CHEAP. My GR complete was only $6.75!
I'm going to be buying the two extra boxes/VIP time I'll need to go VIP all the way to the end in the next few days. I suggest you could do the same.
(I just hope you didn't buy all the retail boxes, because then you really will be SOL.)
Good luck! -
Quote:Ah. So noted. If I have to get another box to continue VIP to the end, I'll get that one.Originally Posted by Goliath Bird Eater
FYI, the map with the launch pads came packed with the Good vs Evil box.
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Quote:(Falls over laughing)Originally Posted by Fire Man
It went to the Americans.
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Quote:*sputters*
The Blue Steel = Chuck Norris type gags were known around the office, and I had suggested we do a fight where the player is fighting Blue Steel, very hard fight. When he reaches 50% health, he stops, and says, You think this shield protects me from the world. Youre wrong. It protects the world... from me. At this point he drops the shield and does a build up animation that causes an explosion, effectively ending the fight as the entire area around him gets destroyed in a DBZ-esque manner.
Damnit, fellas!
*Goes to get paper towel for the Mountain Dew on the monitor. Again.*
I really wish I could've worked in the office with you guys. But I fear I would've had to invest in a monitor cover...
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Quote:Same here! My main/lead Villain (who made the morality arc-jump to full hero and is now on her way back full circle.) Really respected the HELL out of Scirocco. He and Ghost Widow are tied in my head for favorite redside signature characters.Originally Posted by Deacon_NA
The Scirocco story was incredible. I always enjoyed his patron arc the most, he had the most depth of probably any of the named NPCs, IMO. I really would have enjoyed playing that arc.
And yeah - very disappointed not going to get to play that. ;_; -
Quote:( Stage whispers:Originally Posted by MisterD
Hugo Figures and Agent Gally. Were they ever going to be successful in liberating the Bane Spider network? If not, what ultimately happens to them?
MM: What issue/storyline were they from?
Westin phipps arc in GV..JUST did it. It is a really sad and moving lil bit of story. Hugo is a guy who met Gally as a young man, and fell on love. Then arachnos latch onto him due to his psy powers, and he gets press ganged into the Banes. Due to his psy, he isn't under their thumb though, and starts convincing others that they can be something else. This is when Phipps sends your Villain to investigate, eventually killing Huge, and then Gally. Then the whole operation is shown to be under the lead of Manticore (the whole free bane operation). Its neat.
They probably never went anywhere with it because "Hugo" and "Gally" are character name references to Battle Angel Alita/Gunnm, a manga by Yukita Kishiro, and the mission arc mirrors (vaguely) their relationship in the manga. And they could probably "get away with" a reference to that for a single mission arc, but planning anything major beyond that might be... problematic. Lawyer bait, y'know? ) -
Quote:Oh! Okay! That would explain a lot! I never got a box set after I bought City of Villains.Originally Posted by GadgetDon
There's a construction area in the NE corner of Steel. In the paper map released with one of the box sets, it talked about a rocket base.
Though I did buy Going Rogue Complete Edition last week to re-activate my VIP status.
*rummages*
Nope, not marked on this map. They probably removed it before this edition came out. Pity. -
Quote:*sputters* SNORK....
What are the other 11 methods of time travel besides Dreaming and the Pillar of Ice and Flame?
MM: 3) Flux Capacitor 4) Call Box/Phone Booth 5) Steampunk machine 6) Black Hole 7) Time Tunnel 8) Magic 9) Divine Intervention 10) Body Jumping 11) The Method You Came Up With For Your Character.
STM: 12) Min-maxing.
Damnit guys! *gets paper towel to clean Mountain Dew off monitor*
*Shakes fist in mock anger*
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Quote:Huh! And you know what I thought instantly on seeing that? That Matthew Habashy, your first new Atlas Park contact in the new mission content for Freedom would have been PERFECT for that. Since Reese is your first contact in the tutorial for Praetoria.
RG: Removing the evil goatee aspect of Praetoria made it a more compelling story, I think. That said, I really wanted to make a Primal Reese, and have him be a mild-mannered and very polite civilian in Paragon City.
I'd be surprised if no one else thought of that. I'm guessing it wasn't done that way because of the unwillingness to make everything a 'mirror' of everything else. -
Quote:Ugh... That... That REALLY hurts. I feel for you guys.
Were there actual plans for a moonbase?
MM: I approved art dailies from it on the last day of the studio.
Issue 28.
RG: The funny thing is, our database had a value called MOONBASE that basically represented a build that didnt exist in the system yet. It was a running gag that we would always be planning a moonbase, but it would never actually come to fruition. The plan for Issues 25-28 were the moment we hunkered down and said, Were actually going to do it this time! We were... wrong.
Damnit. I don't want to get consumed in hatred for NCsoft. But that...
Yeah. That one gets added to "the list".